Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – The Core Engineering

Location: New York, NY, United States

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm providing financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals.

What you will do

• Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with engineering leadership.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems with product development teams.
• Build automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities to reduce operational toil.
• Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and reliability reviews.
• Lead complex, multi-system production incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.
• Design sustainable on-call models, escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, Node.js, or another major programming language.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, service meshes, and ingress controllers.
• Advanced experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with observability, automated testing, SDLC concepts, Linux, networking, load balancing, algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• 7–10 years of experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field are preferred.

Nice to have

• Interest in financial markets and technology.
• Experience influencing architecture and driving SRE adoption without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Blameless culture focused on learning from failures and improving systems.
• Fast-paced environment with collaboration across multiple engineering teams.
• Emphasis on sustainable operations, clear escalation paths, and healthy on-call practices.